Pith Number

pith:BR7QTPU5

pith:2014:BR7QTPU5DJIC7BML2Y6MX7LRA7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Destroying a topological quantum bit by condensing Ising vortices

Roger Melko, Stephen Inglis, Zhihao Hao

arxiv:1403.3982 v2 · 2014-03-17 · cond-mat.str-el

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BR7QTPU5DJIC7BML2Y6MX7LRA7}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:31:03.946742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c7f09be9d1a502f858bd63ccbfd7107d624066e4191c90ad846430a1e6989ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.3982 · arxiv_version: 1403.3982v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.3982 · pith_short_12: BR7QTPU5DJIC · pith_short_16: BR7QTPU5DJIC7BML · pith_short_8: BR7QTPU5

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BR7QTPU5DJIC7BML2Y6MX7LRA7 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0c7f09be9d1a502f858bd63ccbfd7107d624066e4191c90ad846430a1e6989ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d6b304ede61bf58895a04294fdb91b225e5df0a7c97ad5233167127d23dab7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.str-el",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-17T01:47:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "478f0eaf7659e11cab9806caa535bc57b44973fa8eb30ca1447d98913fc70cba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.3982",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}